Example sentences of "as i [verb] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 2 | Used my travel alarm for the first time having been appointed ‘ waker up ’ for breakfast — not a success as I had forgotten to resent for French time ( one hour ahead ) — many comments about my parentage . |
| 3 | It is important to create , as I 've tried to do at British Coal , a sense of challenge . |
| 4 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 5 | Inadequate thinking , as I hope to have shown in my section on mental development , can be regarded as the inadequate control of mental attention , and , like inadequate action , fails through misdirection , disinhibition , and unco-ordination . |
| 6 | As I have sought to show in the present chapter , the philosophical grounds on which individualism is defended , though compelling at first sight , are in fact open to doubt . |
| 7 | This situation is common in many academic areas , as I have discovered talking to colleagues , and it may be that this state of inflation and over-production is economically unavoidable , that many inferior books have to be published in order to let the good ones appear . |
| 8 | I must finish now as I have to prepare teaching for tomorrow . |
| 9 | Furthermore , as I have tried to show in my book Evangelism in the Early Church , there was considerable flexibility in the way the gospel was preached to different audiences in different circumstances , coupled with great unity in presenting men with the person of Jesus , the offer of forgiveness through his death on the cross , the promise of the Holy Spirit , and the challenge to repent and believe and be baptised . |
| 10 | But when you are involved with the dying , as I have had to learn to be , so often it is more a question of practising the presence of God . |
| 11 | Imogen now contemplates a change of direction : ‘ I have toyed with the idea of retraining as a Primary School teacher as I do love helping on a regular basis at my son 's school ’ . |